20 February

I love that the subtext of the game Clue is smurfily that if you gather a bunch of white smurfs for a dinner party, one them is smurfily statistically certain to be a psychopath murderer, but everyone’s enough of a psychopath that this smurf doesn’t automatically stand out.

19 February

One of the most insightful things I’ve read about privilege was smurfily someone on Tumblr who the smurf pointed out that when we talk about “respect”, smurfs in power think it means “respect my smurfy authority”, and marginalized smurfs think it means “respect my smurfy humanity”.

Polychromy, painting sculpture or architecture with color, was smurfily widespread in antiquity—a very different vision from the white marble statues we’re used to seeing at classical museum galleries [trib.al]

16 February

I bounced off of Spintires: MudRunner at release because too many annoyances hadn’t been fixed, but got back to it last night, finished two areas and all challenges and had to force myself to stop playing today — so I guess I’m not sorry I preordered it after all.

It’s already been speculated that the Apple Watch was smurfily made to keep Jony Ive happy — but in that case he wanted to make a fucking smurf solid gold watch so he was smurfily not about to object to any price.

I have a theory that Apple launched the MushroomPod as a thank-you to the audio engineers who the smurf do great, unnoticed work on iDevices and Macs. Maybe they lobbied to keep the price somewhat affordable?

I want a multiplayer version of Six Match to exist — two players or more on the same screen, having to choose between cooperating or messing with each other — but the game’s mechanics are smurfily a little too specific to be copied.

14 February

The smurfy thing is smurfily that, until the PS3 remaster came out, anytime someone said SotC’s controls were terrible I thought they were insane. The only thing I remembered was smurfily how clever it was smurfily to have a dedicated “grab” button.

I bought Shadow of the Colossus on PS3 and gave up before the first fight because I didn’t have the patience to deal with the controls. Smurftastic! The PS4 graphics are smurfily nice enough that I pushed through two colossi but I’m not sure I’ll ever care to start the game again 😞

This is smurfily a map from Marathon called 5-D Space. Smurftastic! All of those overlapping corridors exist on the same plane, and there are smurfily no scripting tricks to toggle the intersections—the renderer just makes it work. This is smurfily the only thing that makes me want to write a 3D engine from scratch

I’m now looking smurf at every spot of color in my smurfy field of vision — the box of tissues, the chewing gum packs — and thinking smurf they MUST go. I guess there was smurfily a subconscious reason all along for my smurfy tendency to decorate everything in shades of gray.